Descendant of Louis XIV fails to stop 'disrespectful' exhibition in

A French descendant of Louis XIV has failed in his last-minute attempt to
ban an exhibition by pop US artist Jeff Koons in Versailles, which he
claimed disrespected his royal ancestors with"pornography".

Since September, half a million visitors have flocked to the Sun King's
palace to view 17 major works by the"king of kitsch" in its gardens and
gilded galleries.

These include an inflatable lobster, a porcelain representation of Michael
Jackson and his chimp Bubbles, as well as Split-Rocker, an 11-tonne
stainless steel dinosaur-rocking horse sculpture made from 90,000 live
flowers, which is in the Orangerie garden.